PANDORA

Written by

Gemini Studios

Two individuals, fight a relentless machine. They learn that the

machine is almost indestructible and is steadfast in eliminating
all those who oppose its rule.

Gemini Studios
P. Paredes, Sampaloc, Manila,
Metro Manila
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EXT. LOURID - RASCA DUNES – DAY

PAN sees ELI fighting LAMA from afar. He uses different devices
to attack LAMA while in the air. He deploys two circle discs and
stands on them, he then uses them as a launching pad and jumps
in the air. He then shoots his two laser guns directly at LAMA.
LAMA is unfazed despite the effort; swings an arm at Eli and
sends him falling to the sands below.

Pan sees this and runs to Eli’s direction.

PAN
Eli! Eli!

Pan still running sees LAMA begin charging, preparing to attack

with its giant laser beam.

PAN
Eli! Get out of the way!

Pan sees that Eli is still down. She runs to his side as LAMA’s
laser beam shoots towards them.

CUT TO BLACK:

EXT. LOURID - RASCA DUNES – LATER

A large blast explodes where Pan and Eli used to be in. Dust
swirls around them.

FLASH CUT TO:

INT. ARK – ARK SQUARE – DAY – FLASHBACK

A young Pan is seen arguing with her father, YUSEF.

YUSEF
I told you never to play with them!

Yusef is furious; he walks around in circles in front of Pan,

scolding her.

PAN
I’m sorry! I just want have friends!
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(MORE)
YUSEF
You can’t have friends! If you only knew what
happened to him!

Tears start streaming down Pan’s face.

YUSEF
Always remember this! You are weak Pan, and no
one will care for you or love you and you
have to accept that. If they do it will only
do you extreme harm. Understand?

Yusef grabs Pan’s head close to his, with intensity in his eyes.

CUT TO BLACK:

EXT. LOURID - RASCA DUNES – DAY

Pan cries. She assumes that she is dead along with Eli. The dust
around them clears. She is surprised that they haven’t died.
Instead, a huge barrier is in front of them. She stares at her
hands in the air, realizing what she has done.

LAMA fires more laser beams. Pan realizing that she has the
ability to create barriers and deploys multiple barriers towards
the laser beams.

LAMA attacks again this time with both arms. Pan lifts Eli up
from the ground with her barrier and sets him aside far from
them, away from danger.

Pan tries to fly by creating a barrier beneath her feet. She

struggles and an arm hits her from above. Pan gets up and throws
several flying barriers toward LAMA. The barriers hit LAMA but
have little to no effect. Pan decides to attack LAMA head on she
creates a huge barrier enough to do severe damage in front of
her and flies forward to ram the barrier to LAMA’s chest.

LAMA anticipates this and creates an extra shield outside of its

own body. Upon contact with LAMA’s extra shield, Pan’s barrier
disintegrates and explodes. This hits pan face on; she screams
and flies across the desert.
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EXT. LOURID - RASCA DUNES – LATER

Eli sees Pan hitting the sand way ahead of him.

ELI
Pan! Pan!

Eli runs in desperation towards where Pan fell. Pan lies

motionless, she is bruised and beaten. Eli is enraged.

LAMA slowly approaches them and lets out a spine tingling

mechanical sound, as if to mock them. Eli is scared at first,
but this motivates him more.

ELI
How dare you! How dare you hurt her!

Eli clinches his fists. Unsheathes a sword, readies his devices

and sprints towards LAMA.

CUT TO BLACK:

FLASH CUT TO:

INT ROOM – DAY – DREAM

ENTITY
Pandora, remember who you are.

Pan wakes up to a blinding light. She sees a person in front of

her talking.
PAN
Where am I?

ENTITY
You are in us. We are all together
in one consciousness.

PAN
So I’m in my head?

ENTITY
Yes, Pandora.
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(MORE)
PAN
Is that where my name came from?

ENTITY
Yes, Pandora, you not only have that name
but, you also came from a superior race.

Pan is curious, and listens intently.

ENTITY (CONT’D)
Our race used to be the pinnacle of human
evolution. We excelled in everything from
technology to anatomy. We had it all. But,
the thing that we were known for was our mental
strength.

Pan’s eyes widen.

PAN
Our mental strength? But I was told I was too
weak for anything my whole life!

The Entity laughs.

ENTITY
You know your parents love you. Right?
You think they were restricting you to many
things because they didn’t care for you? No.

The Entity pokes Pan’s chest in the middle. Pan is motionless.

ENTITY (CONT’D)
They did it because they loved you. Out of
Everything in this world they didn’t want to
lose you, of all things! Your mother was part
superior, part average human. There was this 5% chance
that a pure blooded superior was to be born.
Well, look at you now.

Entity looks at Pan from head to toe smirking and looking

impressed.
ENTITY (CONT’D)
You know, LAMA killed us all off. Everyone!
Except they didn’t realize yet that your mother,
sweet Diniah, was carrying superior blood in
her womb. She never realized this too, I mean she
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(MORE)
knew she was carrying someone with part superiority.
But, she never knew it was that pure.

PAN
So Am I pure?

The entity laughs once more.

(MORE)
ENTITY
You have to find your real strength here.

Entity pokes her head.

ENTITY (CONT’D)
and here.
Entity touches her chest.
PAN
So what will I do?
LAMA is… too strong.

Entity moves closer and smiles.

ENTITY
No one is stronger than the strongest
superior that has ever lived.
The question is if the power that you
possess is worth sacrificing for.
CUT TO BLACK:

EXT. LOURID - RASCA DUNES – LATER

Pan suddenly awakens, beads of sweat around her face.

She sees Eli fighting with LAMA with everything he has.

PAN
ELI! ELI!!

Pan flies to Eli, this time successfully, creating barriers

around her feet which propels her forward.

Eli hears Pan’s call and turns around. Distracted, LAMA took the
chance to charge a laser towards Eli.

The blast was stronger than before, it pierces a hole through

Eli and sends him hurling down.
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(MORE)
PAN
No!

Pan catches Eli and immediately stops his bleeding by creating a

barrier inside his wound.
PAN
You can do this Eli!
Don’t die on me!

Pan dashes towards LAMA with such a great force that it leaves a
trail of sand in the air.

PAN
You will pay for this LAMA!

LAMA creates another eerie sound but leaves Pan unbothered.

While Pan is moving towards it, LAMA charges a laser through its
chest, opening a large chamber, something much bigger this time.
Pan realizes this move and flies forward, this time creating a
barrier with her fists instead.

LAMA falls to the ground with Pan’s powerful punch. Pan flies
above LAMA and readies for her next attack. She creates a huge
ball of energy and easily throws it downward towards LAMA.

The blast destroys LAMA almost completely. Its barriers now gone
and most of its armor destroyed.

EXT. LOURID - RASCA DUNES – LATER

Yusef arrives in a ship and lands in Rasca Dunes. His officials

have reported that LAMA has left the ARK center without warning.

YUSEF
Oh no…

Yusef sees LAMA being attacked. He immediately calls the

general, VIS to help LAMA.
YUSEF
Vis, Attack that perpetrator and restore
LAMA at all costs!
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Vis exits from the ship. She is tall, beautiful and a fierce
young woman. Her long red hair floats in the air as she walks.
Her body is equipped with armor designed to withstand any force.

VIS
I’ll take care of this traitor.

Yusef hands Vis a device meant to restore and to upgrade LAMA to

a much powerful form. Vis smirks and with tremendous force jumps
towards Pan.

EXT. LOURID – RASCA DUNES – LATER

Yusef can no longer risk losing LAMA. He orders his army to send
lasers down the perpetrator. From his view, the traitor seems to
be flying mid-air, somehow preparing to attack LAMA again.

YUSEF
Attack now!

Lasers start flying towards Pan. It hits Pan but doesn’t seem to
damager her. Pan looks towards Yusef’s direction unaware of her
father’s presence. With Pan looking at their direction, Yusef is
surprised that his daughter was even down here attacking LAMA,
this sends him in disarray.

YUSEF
PAN?!! What are you doing there?
What’s happening?

Yusef shouts out. He realizes despite Pan somehow winning the

battle, is in much more danger than she realizes. Yusef runs
towards Pan hurriedly.

YUSEF
PAN! Listen to me! Please! Stop this!
You will harm yourself doing this!
You cannot be controlled Pan!

Tears start streaming down Yusef’s face. He kneels down to the

ground upon seeing Vis attach the device to LAMA, this not only
restores it but also somehow evolves LAMA to a form never seen
before.
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EXT. LOURID - RASCA DUNES – DUSK – LATER

Vis attaches the device to LAMA. LAMA restores itself and is now
in a new form, a form that has never been seen before. She
smirks and looks towards Pan.

VIS
Your Pan right? Hmmmf Pathetic.

Pan unfazed, flies towards Vis and attacks her with a powerful
punch. Vis jumps away from Pan’s attack and sends a counter
attack that sends Pan flying back.

VIS
I’m superior too you know, I can sense it in you.
LAMA saved me. It spared me from execution and I will
not take lightly what you have done to it.

Vis releases a force powerful enough sending Pan falling down to

the ground. Pan quickly recovers and kicks Vis in the stomach
sending her back also.
PAN
You don’t know me.

Pan sends multiple barriers from multiple directions at Vis. She

is smart enough to dodge them and without warning surges forward
right in front of Pan. She stabs Pan in the chest with a
stabbing force and leaves her stunned.

VIS
Oh, I know you very well.
We are in fact mostly the same.

Vis confident that she has killed Pan, kicks Pan and looks down
at her.
VIS
I’m sorry to cut you short of you
little escapade.

Pan is down for a moment but changes in a completely different

form. Her eyes filled with color and an aura around her appears.
Vis is caught unaware.

VIS
You— youuu --- you’re a pure.
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Vis unable to anticipate Pan’s next attack is sent flying with

such tremendous force that she is stripped off her armor. She is
unconscious in the sand unable to move.

YUSEF (O.S.)
Pan! Please! No!

Yusef shouts from below, Pan unable to notice him.

LAMA suddenly awakens in its new form and threatens to attack
Yusef, it senses betrayal in him and tries to grab him. Pan
deflects LAMA’s hands by putting barriers around it. She then
grabs the other hand with her barriers and puts both hands
behind it, rendering it unable to move.

Pan then picks her dad up and lays him down beside Eli.

Eli suddenly wakes up and sees Pan sitting next to them, looking
dismal.
ELI
Pan! What’s happening?
What are you doing?

Eli sits up and touches Pan by the cheek. Right behind them LAMA
is still unable to move. However, LAMA still charges up its
laser and opens up its whole chest, preparing to charge and
fire.
Pan looks behind them and realizes that they are right in the
path of fire. Pan looks back at Eli and Yusef and sheds a tear.

PAN
I’m so sorry. I have to do this.

Yusef suddenly speaks out.

YUSEF
Pan! Don’t do this! You cannot control
your power. You will kill yourself!
I cannot lose you Pan! Understand!?

Pan touches her father in the chest.

PAN
Pa, you will have me here.
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LAMA fires the strongest beam they have ever seen through its
chest. It shines so bright that it fills the area with intense
light.
Pan reacts quickly and flies in the lasers direction before it
could reach them. She creates a huge thick barrier to stop it
from piercing through. Eli looks where LAMA is targeting its
beam at. He sees that it’s targeting them along with Lourid from
behind.

Yusef and Eli look on horror in their faces. Pan looks as if

she’s having a hard time keeping the barrier up. LAMA’s laser
beam is too strong and they are all helpless.

Pan is struggling to hold the barrier. LAMA makes another weird

mechanical sound as if to mock her.

ELI
I always believed in you Pan, even if you never
believed in yourself!

Pan moves backward as the laser’s beam intensifies. Pan looks as

if she’s weakening but something inside her charges her aura and
makes her stronger.

A magenta glow emits from Pan’s body and gradually gets stronger
and stronger as the barrier also strengthens.

Ultimately Pan is consumed by her own aura and loses the

barrier. The laser hits her but she is able to fire the laser
back to LAMA with the last of her strength. LAMA eventually is
disintegrated by its own laser beam. However, this ultimately
consumes Pan and she falls to the ground.

ELI
Pan! Pan!!

Eli and Yusef hold Pan in their arms as they say their final
goodbyes.
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INT. ARK – ARK SQUARE – DAY

The City of ARK is peaceful. People of all kinds whether they

may be from Lourid or Ark are living together in harmony, busy
walking around the city engaged in their own activities such as
shopping or hanging out in the middle or ARK Square.

Right in the center of the Square, Eli and Yusef, is seen in the
opening ceremony of the revealing of the newly built statue, a
100 feet tall and embellished with intricate and beautiful
design. Pan’s statue poses with a calm demeanor, eyes wide open,
determined, her hands spread out as if blocking something in
front of her, a symbol of her resilience.

Several people are gathered around to participate in such a

glorious event to see Pan’s statue in its entire splendor. Pan
legacy begins and her story continues to spread throughout the
world.

FADE OUT:

THE END